Chapter Seventy-Six: The Sleek Shigeharu Takenaka
Shigeharu Takenaka was a smart man, and although he could hear this, he was not prepared to discourage the young man, because he did not know what was going on in the middle of the whole battle, let alone many of the details. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info so he simply thought that it was because he was anxious to show himself in front of his father, so he told such a lie.
If Imate Tomotaka was just an ordinary samurai, then Shigeharu Takenaka would have sternly told him that his behavior was wrong, it was a very wrong, and it was an act that could not be forgiven in the Kuroda family. Because everything in the Kuroda family is about real merit, not greedy for everything that others should have.
But what is Tomotaka Ide's identity? He is the eldest son of the Imate Tomo, and his status in the Kuroda family is noble, so it is better for him to pretend to be confused, and there is no need to expose his lies to his face, which will only make both sides look bad, and hit the young man's self-esteem, and make the young man hate himself.
Because he also knows a little bit about the young man Imate Tomotaka, it seems that he is not a good person to get along with, and he has a reputation for being very proud. In case he holds a grudge, it will be the same situation as preventing thieves every day, Shigeharu Takenaka is not afraid of such a thing, but it does not mean that he wants to provoke such a character. Shigeharu Takenaka is a smart person, and the most important thing for a smart person is to protect himself first.
Counting what the Iate Tomotaka army showed this time, it is still very commendable, it only took five days to defeat the coalition of the three families, occupy the three counties of the entire Southern Hyuga Country, and make the Ito family dare not go south, taking it out alone, it is nothing to Kuroda, but it is indeed not an easy thing to complete together.
And young people, sometimes they will show a good side of great success, which is also normal, and it seems that this is the same when they are young, maybe this indicates that this young man will have a future in the future. So it's actually understandable to take the whole merit on your own head now.
If Shigeharu Takenaka knew the entire battle process at this time, and knew all the performances of Tomotaka Imate in the battle, then he would definitely have a different opinion and different actions now.
One thing is for sure, at least Shigeharu Takenaka will stand up very upright and expose all his lies. Unfortunately, sometimes even if something happens, other people will artificially ignore something for various reasons and cause misunderstandings, which will have a very negative impact on the whole situation. But for now, at least, Shigeharu Takenaka has chosen to remain silent.
Now Imate Tomotaka is just hiding the entire battle process, and taking all the merits on himself, and in the process of the battle, he does not care very much about the lives of the soldiers. It's okay to say that this is an almost crushing battle for the Kuroda family now, but what about the battle that happened later, if he encounters a more urgent situation, how will he behave, and he can still be as lucky as this time, with Inoue no Fang and Takimoto Temple, don't these people give him a cover?
No one knows what will happen after that, at least Imate Tomotaka himself doesn't care about it at all, he thinks he can win the battle without these people.
The Kuroda family's land in Minami Hyuga has been received by 2,000 people under the command of Hanabo Masayuki, and the people who were originally seconded to Izate Tomotaka Tsukimoto Temple, Kaneko Mototachi, Ono Masanao, and Hirano Naobo have also returned to the command of the Ide Tomoshi to help him sort out the affairs of the entire Satsuma country.
And during the whole process, although the movement was very large, the overlord of the Hyuga country, Ito Yoshisuke, as if he didn't know it at all, allowed the Kuroda family to occupy the Iino place.
After the war, under the pretext that Hanabo Masayuki needed someone familiar with the affairs of southern Kyushu, Takenaka Shigeharu borrowed Ijichi Shigexing and Yuya Shigenaga from Ryo Liver Toki, and transferred the two of them to Hanabo Masayuki's command and force, and also assisted him in managing the Minami-Hyuga region.
And Yingwa Jianxian, who has a tendency to be two or five boys under the command of Liver Fu and Liang, and Mei Bei Guokan, who is the same clan of the Liver Fu family, did not gain the trust of the Kuroda family and continued to live in the Liver Fu family.
After the change of defense of the Minami Hynata country, the Imate Tomo clan reorganized an army of 6,000 people, consisting of 5,000 elite infantry soldiers of the Kuroda family, 500 remote soldiers of the Kuroda family, and a total of 500 people from the Ganfu Kanei and its vassal forces.
This time, the Kuroda family's target will be the land of the original Ryogari family. Because when the Southern Kyushu Coalition was formed before, there was an agreement that these lands would be divided between the Sagara family and the Kitahara family, although the coalition was not able to defeat the Kuroda family in the end, but Shimazu Yoshihisa, who was the owner of this land at that time, fled to Higo Province with his own people, so when the coalition failed, this land became a terra nullius.
It stands to reason that these families in Minami Kyushu have been defeated by the Kuroda family, and the original land of the Ryokari family should naturally become the land of the Kuroda family. Who said that the current power of the Kuroda family has almost an overwhelming advantage in southern Kyushu!
In Sagara Yoshiyo's view, the same situation is the same, it is extremely irrational to offend the Kuroda family for the sake of a county's land, and after defeating the southern Kyushu coalition army (before the defeat of the southern Hyuga country), the Kuroda family began to stand still, which means that the actual strategic purpose of the Kuroda family is not clear in Sagara Yoshiyo's view.
Since it is possible that the Kuroda family is really just fighting the Shimazu family, then the best choice for the Sagara family may be to defend their territory.
It is precisely for this reason that Sagara Yoshiyo chose the latter choice between acquiring land and continuing the hostility with the Kuroda family, or giving up the land to preserve himself, which is the same choice as Ito Yoshiyu.
Sagara Yoshiyo did make the most rational choice, but the Kitahara family, who was the weakest in the Southern Kyushu coalition at that time, didn't think so.
Kitahara Tadazawa, the head of the Kitahara family, believes that since the Kuroda family has stagnated at Mt. Takachiho, it seems that they have been satisfied with defeating the Shimazu family and obtaining the result of Satsuma Province, so perhaps the Kuroda family is not interested in the land of the Hishika family.
So based on the above judgment, the Kitahara family quickly sent troops, and the Kitahara family's family led 300 soldiers to occupy the original land of the Hishikara family, and all of them were included in the rule of the Kitahara family.